7th edition of Ahmedabad International Literature Festival is scheduled to be held on 8th and 9th October 2022 in the traditional Offline mode. After having fully Online 5th edition in 2020 and again mainly Online and curtailed Offline 6th edition in 2021 caused by Covid Pandemic, this fully physical edition will also be available live on its social media pages.
Considered as one of the most reputed and content-oriented Literature Festival of India, Ahmedabad International Literature festival is having its theme in this season as ‘Humans, Nature and the Future’. Picturesque and natural venue epitomizing the theme is Centre for Environment Education, Thaltej Tekra, Ahmedabad.
Festival Director Umashanker Yadav informed that around 80 speakers will be taking part this year in the discussions centered around, nature, culture, songs, fiction, biographies, regional literatures, defence stories, climate and forests, women’s issues, children’s literature, cinema, folklores, poetry, drama, world literature, tribal literature, Tourist destinations in Gujarat and more.
Apart from this, there are book launches, awards, presentations, musical evening with multilingual poetry, plays and much more in store for the literary audience.
Notable among the speakers are Guinness Book of World record holder for maximum songs, noted lyricist Sameer Anjaan, Hindi films actor, producer and author Tusshar Kapoor, India’s youngest Param Vir Chakra awardee, author of the ‘The Hero of Tiger Hill’ Capt ( Hony) Yogentdra Singh Yadav, Guajarati Folklorist ,great exponent of tribal literature, Dr. Bhagwandas Patel, Australian poet, writer and multi-media artist Kathryn Hummel, Deputy Consul General of Irish Embassy Mumbai, Alison Reilly, young and awarded poet from Imphal ( Manipur ) Wangthoi Khuman, Director IIM – Rohtak and author Prof Dhiraj Sharma, environmental educator and community builder , Padma Shri Kartikeya Sarabhai, OSD to the Government of Mizoram and author Ajay Chaudhry, IPS, poet and actor Ravi Yadav, senior journalists Mukesh Kaushik, Aditya Kant and Nirmal Yadav, best-selling author, Prasun Roy, author Maitridevi Sisodiya, GAS , author Dr.Heera Lal, IAS and Dance performer and Researcher Rewan Abdelnaser Attia from Egypt.
The festival is an initiative of Ikon Education Foundation and has been getting continuous support from many Government and private organisations since its inception in 2016. Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd. is the Patron in this edition and GMDC is Silver Sponsor. The festival is powered by Ikon Barcode Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Press Conference will be attended by: —
Umashanker Yadav – Founder Director of the festival
Ravindra Mardia – Author, Industrialist, Poet and Director ICAC Art Gallery, ICAC, World Art Hub
Mallika Mukherjee – Multilingual Author, Retired Senior Auditor
Nivid Desai – Writer, Educator and Teaching Associate at IIT Gandhinagar
